This week, we will finally discuss African American city life in the
years following the Civil War. The two texts before us are Tera Hunter's
study on
African American women's personal and work lives in postbellum Atlanta and Martha Sandweiss' investigation of a
hidden interracial romance
in New York during the same period. In both books, the students will
pay close attention to gender. They will be asked to look for how the labor experiences of African American women workers differ
from others. They will also think deeply about the ways in which the
city became the pulse of American life as the century closed and the
challenges/triumphs such a dynamic posed for people of African descent,
women in particular. Among other things, they will ponder how and why residential patterns changed after the war.
This week, we will finally discuss African American city life in the
years following the Civil War. The two texts before us are Tera Hunter's
study on African American women's personal and work lives in postbellum Atlanta and Martha Sandweiss' investigation of a hidden interracial romance
in New York during the same period. In both books, the students will
pay close attention to gender. They will be asked to look for how the labor experiences of African American women workers differ
from others. They will also think deeply about the ways in which the
city became the pulse of American life as the century closed and the
challenges/triumphs such a dynamic posed for people of African descent,
women in particular. Among other things, they will ponder how and why residential patterns changed after the war.
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